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Environment

  • Firefighters tackling a blaze

    Climate crisis
    Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts

    Record emissions, temperatures and population mean more scientists are looking into possibility of societal collapse, report says
  • fruit rotting in a bowl

    The long read
    The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it

  • Wild camping on Dartmoor

    Access to green space
    Picnicking on Dartmoor is trespassing, landowner’s lawyers tell court

  • A honey bee on a flower

    Bees
    UK may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it

  • Tangle of electric cables plugged into an extension lead on a brown floor

    Recycling
    Britons urged to dig out unwanted electricals to tackle copper shortage

  • Cultivated meat in a petri dish

    Meat industry
    Lab-grown meat could be sold in UK in next few years, says food regulator

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CO2 tracker

Spotlight

  • Water flowing down the Klamath River where the Copco 2 dam once stood in Siskiyou county, California.

    Klamath River dam removal: before and after images show dramatic change

  • Backburning at night on Gilberton Station, 450km west of Townsville, Queensland, Australia

    Surviving the summer on Queensland’s remote cattle properties: ‘We never give up on fires’

    • A Samburu herder in The Battle for Laikipia.

      ‘It was a challenge to film both sides’: the struggle to portray Kenya’s age-old land dispute

    • A woman in a yellow cardigan looks down at a table filled with boxed food goods.

      ‘We look after our neighbors’: how mutual-aid groups are filling the gaps after Hurricane Helene

    • Helen Thomson and her friend Jess Bond walk in Kielderhead national nature reserve.

      ‘Nature is free, and the best kind of medicine’: is this the perfect walk for improving mental health?

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Opinion

  • James Piper

    Outraged that some plastic you send for recycling ends up being burned? Don’t be

    James Piper
  • Rebecca Solnit

    Hurricane Helene is a humanitarian crisis – and a climate disaster

    Rebecca Solnit
  • Nadya Tolokonnikova

    Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him

    Nadya Tolokonnikova
  • Greg Jericho

    Plibersek’s coalmine decision is double trouble for climate and housing

    Greg Jericho
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The age of extinction

  • Susana Muhamad Rozo 001 in Bogota, Colombia, June 2022

    How the ‘Frida Kahlo of environmental geopolitics’ is lighting a fire under big oil

  • A spiky agave-type plant on a mountain-side of grass and rocks

    Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants

    Kew study reveals areas with at least 100,000 undiscovered plant species – most likely to be under threat of extinction
  • Alistair Boxall, professor in environmental science at the University of York, taking a water sample at Brook Head Beck

    ‘Rivers you think are pristine are not’: how drug pollution flooded the UK’s waterways – and put human health at risk

    High levels of antibiotics and other drugs have been found in water in the country’s most treasured and protected landscapes, raising concerns over antimicrobial resistance
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Seascape

  • Aerial of Clayoquot Sound reserve in British Columbia is home to the last 60 salmon farms

    ‘I won’t believe it until I see it happen’: Could a ban on sea farms save Canada’s salmon?

  • A cuttlefish amid weed-covered branches of a tree watched by a man in a wetsuit with goggles and snorkel

    ‘We look to the past to move forward’: the ancient method boosting cuttlefish numbers in the Mediterranean

    • 1st Prize Echoing Sigh-lence of Relief inside Cargo Hold by Muara Jawa.

      The Life at Sea 2024 photography awards: a rare glimpse into the highs and lows of seafaring

    • Corallian Energy Drill in Poole Bay To Explore Oil Reserves<br>POOLE, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: ENSCO-72 drilling rig working in Poole Bay for Corallian Energy on February 15, 2019 in Poole Bay, England. The scheme to drill more than 1,000 metres below the seabed to explore oil reserves in the Colter prospect has until February 28. Save Our Shores Bournemouth says the chemical permit issued by government regulator OPRED allows ‘up to 6753 tons of chemicals to be discharged, including eight tons of biocide’. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

      Oil pollution in UK waters far worse than reported, says conservation group

    • Two divers raise an anchor covered in rust and barnacles towards the surface

      ‘I had found gold before, but not like this’: four of the most splendid treasures salvaged from shipwrecks

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Multimedia

  • At least 14 killed in Bosnian floods after torrential rainstorm overnight – video

  • Sharks found to be an overlooked predator of sea urchins in accidental discovery by Australian researchers

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    Researchers wanted to study lobsters eating sea urchins. But sharks ate their lunch — video

    Sharks found to be an overlooked predator of sea urchins in accidental discovery by Australian researchers
  • Brown bears look for food in Sarikamis, Turkey.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: bears caught in the act, a glamorous seal and a fugitive emu

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • The stars of 367 Collins Street have welcomed baby birds to the nest

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    Collins Street falcons: two chicks have hatched on skyscraper and are taking meals – video

  • A Komodo dragon up close on Komodo Island, Indonesia

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a penguin ballerina, the spooky spookfish and a sociable octopus

  • The Speed Skater – Stellers Sea Eagle in the drifting sea ice off Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan

    Comedy wildlife photography awards 2024 – in pictures

  • Nine protesters jumped on top of a train on Wednesday morning headed to the Port of Newcastle, unfurled a banner and began shovelling coal off

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    Activists board coal train as Albanese government approves three coalmine expansions – video

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